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Cornelius Puschmann (1)
Cornelius Puschmann / Universität Bremen

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann

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Cornelius Puschmann is Professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on digital communication at ZeMKI and leader of the digital communication and information diversity (DCID) lab. From 2012 to 2016, he headed the DFG project “Networking, Visibility, Information? Usage motives of informal digital communication genres among scientists” at the Institute for Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Between 2014 and 2015, he held a professorship for communication science with a focus on digital communication at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. After conducting research at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society as part of the project “Networks of Outrage: Mapping the emergence of new extremism in Europe” from March to September 2016, he moved to the Leibniz Institute for Media Research / Hans Bredow Institute at the University of Hamburg in 2016. Cornelius Puschmann has been a visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Havard University and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, among others.

Main research areas

Computational communication research, digital media usage, hate speech, role of algorithmic selection for digital communication

Ongoing projects

Informed by Influencers? (INDI)

Political Polarization and individualized online Information Environments: A longitudinal Tracking Study (POLTRACK)

Memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
  • European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)

Profiles

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-0662

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fUKHjuwAAAAJ

Github: https://github.com/cbpuschmann

Current publications

Puschmann, C., Stier, S., Zerrer, P., Rauxloh, H. (2024). Politicized and paranoid? Assessing attitudinal predictors of alternative news consumption. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2024.2383411

Haim, M., & Puschmann, C. (2023a). Device-Dependent Biases in Mobile Online News. Computational Communication Research, 5(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2023.1.14.HAIM

Haim, M., & Puschmann, C. (2023b). Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future. Digital Journalism, 11(2), 247–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2174894

Puschmann, C., Karakurt, H., Amlinger, C., Gess, N., & Nachtwey, O. (2022). RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online. Convergence, 28(4), 1144–1171. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221109440

Trilling, D., Kulshrestha, J., Vreese, C. de, Halagiera, D., Jakubowski, J., Möller, J., Puschmann, C., Stępińska, A., Stier, S., & Vaccari, C. (2022). Is sharing just a function of viewing? The sharing of political and non-political news on Facebook. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.016

Puschmann, C., & Pentzold, C. (2021). A field comes of age: Tracking research on the internet within communication studies, 1994 to 2018. Internet Histories, 5(2), 135–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2020.1749805

Münch, F. V., Thies, B., Puschmann, C., & Bruns, A. (2021). Walking Through Twitter: Sampling a Language-Based Follow Network of Influential Twitter Accounts. Social Media + Society, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984475

Fischer, S., & Puschmann, C. (2021). Wie Deutschland über Algorithmen schreibt Eine Analyse des Mediendiskurses über Algorithmen und Künstliche Intelligenz (2005-2020). Bertelsmann Stiftung. https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/user_upload/Diskursanalyse_2021_Algorithmen.pdf

Puschmann, C. (2020). Technische Faktoren bei der Verbreitung propagandistischer Inhalte im Internet und den sozialen Medien. In J. B. Schmitt, J. Ernst, D. Rieger, & H.-J. Roth (Eds.), Propaganda und Prävention: Forschungsergebnisse, didaktische Ansätze, interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zur pädagogischen Arbeit zu extremistischer Internetpropaganda (pp. 539–549). Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28538-8_29

Möller, J., van de Velde, R. N., Merten, L., & Puschmann, C. (2020). Explaining Online News Engagement Based on Browsing Behavior: Creatures of Habit? Social Science Computer Review, 38(5), 616–632. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319828012

Puschmann, C., Ausserhofer, J., & Šlerka, J. (2020). Converging on a nativist core? Comparing issues on the Facebook pages of the Pegida movement and the Alternative for Germany. European Journal of Communication, 35(3), 230–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120922068

Maerz, S. F., & Puschmann, C. (2020). Text as Data for Conflict Research: A Literature Survey. In E. Deutschmann, J. Lorenz, L. G. Nardin, D. Natalini, & A. F. X. Wilhelm (Eds.), Computational Conflict Research (pp. 43–65). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29333-8_3

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-0662